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And then their were two… With Qlusters gone and IMHO, Groundwork feeding off the bottom there are only two commercially viable open source enterprise systems management (ESM) monitoring tools left on the market. Back in Feburary I did a post about Hyperic and now I wanted to get up to speed on the other – [...]

Mark has written a great article for Linux Today summarizing some of the open source activities over the last few weeks. He gives a little history of the “Little 4″ and he also does a good job summarizing some of the recent Gartner analalysis on Microsoft and open source. The Little “3″ of Open Source [...]

I usually say that Tarus of OpenNMS is the hardest working man in open source, but ControlTier, with its new open source CTL offering, would make the original godfather quite proud. I first met the ControlTier guys at BarcampESM. They had come to BarcamESM to ask a very simple question, a question that the “Big [...]

BMC to buy BladeLogic for $28 per share Maybe I have my head too far in the clouds these days, but I am not sure that this is the kind of technology I would be focusing on if I were BMC. Maybe BMC forgot that IBM and HP both sell hardware and that they don’t. [...]